Oracle on Sun Solrais Box is DEAD SLOW!!!!!!!!

From: Praveen <spraveen2001_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 4 Sep 2003 03:47:14 -0700
Message-ID: <98d8ec76.0309040247.14124473_at_posting.google.com>


Hi All,

I'm using 8.1.7 on Sun Solaris machine. I have 2 databases in this machine. around 20 peope will access the db daily for development purpose. But, day by day the system getting dead slow and unable to connect also. I got the following report after checking in the machine.

  PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP

 7445 oracle    191M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.8% oracle/11
 7451 oracle    189M  155M sleep   60    0   0:00:00 0.4% oracle/1
 7425 kiran    5456K  224K cpu0    59    0   0:00:00 0.2% prstat/1
  350 oracle     10M  160K sleep   59    0   0:00:43 0.1% tnslsnr/1
  317 oracle    298M  261M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.1% oracle/1
  285 oracle    190M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:11 0.1% oracle/1
  323 oracle    298M  261M sleep   59    0   0:00:22 0.1% oracle/11
  291 oracle    191M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:21 0.1% oracle/12
 7449 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  321 oracle    299M  261M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% oracle/11
  395 root     4320K  120K sleep   59    0   0:00:09 0.0% sendmail/1
  403 root     2376K  400K sleep   59    0   0:00:12 0.0% mibiisa/7
 6693 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:04 0.0% oracle/1
  299 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% oracle/1
  216 root     2896K  168K sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% nscd/20
 7439 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  331 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% oracle/1
  297 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% oracle/1
 7393 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  390 root     1784K   80K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% ttymon/1
  387 root     1784K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% ttymon/1
  348 root     4960K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% dtlogin/1
 7387 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  394 smmsp    4280K  112K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sendmail/1
  335 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% oracle/1
  333 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% oracle/1
  329 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% oracle/1
  327 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  325 oracle    297M  262M sleep   59    0   0:00:02 0.0% oracle/1
  319 oracle    299M  261M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% oracle/14
  307 oracle    189M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% oracle/1
  305 oracle    189M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% oracle/1
  303 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:05 0.0% oracle/1
  301 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:06 0.0% oracle/1
  295 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  293 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:03 0.0% oracle/1
  289 oracle    191M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% oracle/15
  287 oracle    191M  154M sleep   59    0   0:00:07 0.0% oracle/27
  377 root     3056K  128K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% dmispd/2
 7371 oracle    189M  155M sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
  376 root     3504K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% snmpXdmid/2
  368 root     2120K   88K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% snmpdx/1
  258 root     2616K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% vold/2
  245 root     1720K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% smcboot/1
  246 root     1720K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% smcboot/1
  234 root     1040K  120K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% utmpd/1
  247 root     1720K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% smcboot/1
  398 root     2696K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sshd/1
  201 root     2272K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% cron/1
  178 root     2184K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% lockd/2
  224 root     1408K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% powerd/3
  197 root     3312K  120K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% syslogd/13
  162 root     2456K  128K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% inetd/1
  139 root     2144K  128K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% rpcbind/1
  186 root     3680K   96K sleep   59    0   0:00:01 0.0% automountd/2
  176 daemon   2464K    0K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% statd/1

If we observer, the oracle is consuming so much memory. Can anyone please tell what is happening?

Thanks in Advance,
Praveen Received on Thu Sep 04 2003 - 12:47:14 CEST

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